030567 MC Historical Jewish Law Moot Court (2019W)

The Historical Jewish Law Moot Court, run by the University of Vienna, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Lomonossow Moscow State University, the University of Tel Aviv and Yeshiva University, Cardozo Law School, New York aims at introducing participants to Jewish law as it was practiced in the early modern period. The focus is on the application of Jewish law under concrete historical conditions rather than on Jewish law as a timeless normative system, on "law in action" rather than on "law in the books". Cases adjudicated by the Rabbinic Tribunal of Prague, arguably the most important Jewish legal forum both in the Western Ashkenazic world and in the Holy Roman Empire, serve as a point of reference for the Historical Jewish Law MC.